Favorite ESC country of the decade

[Citelis]

The decade is complete so its time to find my favorite country in Eurovision of the decade. In order to do that i will ask MS Excel to make a sum of all the points i have given to all the entries per country in the decade. Im talking about the ratings here in forum which means every year there are several 12p, 10p etc since there are several great entries, good entries, bad entries etc.

So after doing this i found out that my whole life was a lie. Sweden is NOT my favorite country in Eurovision (this decade). Switzerland is. In fact all Swiss entries after 2011 are great. The only problem is that they ruined some of them with bad performaces but that doesn't change the fact that the songs were amazing. Also i realised how much i like Israel and how underrated Slovenia is.

Here is the full results i got:

1. Switzerland 101p
best entry: Anna Rossinelli
worst entry: Michael von der Heide

2. Sweden 89p
best entry: Loreen
worst entry: Robin Stjernberg

3. Israel 85p
best entry: Netta, Nadav Guedz, Mei Finegold (lol can't decide)
worst entry: Harel Skaat

4. Slovenia 73p
best entry: Maraaya
worst entry: Ansambel Roka Žlindre & Kalamari

5. Denmark 70p
best entry: Emmelie de Forest
worst entry: Rasmussen

6. Finland 70p
best entry: Softengine
worst entry: Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät

7. Netherlands 69p
best entry: The Common Linnets
worst entry: Trijntje Oosterhuis

8. Malta 67p
best entry: Kurt Calleja
worst entry: Thea Garrett

9. Ireland 63p
best entry: Sarah McTernal, Molly Sterling (can't decide)
worst entry: Jedward (both songs are terrible)

10. Moldova 63p
best entry: Aliona Moon
worst entry: Pasha Parfeny

11. Norway 61p
best entry: Margaret Berger
worst entry: Alexander Rybak

12. Romania 60p (9 entries)
best entry: Ilinca & Alex Florea
worst entry: The Humans

13. Italy 57p (9 entries)
best entry: Mahmood, Il Volo
worst entry: Raphael Gualazzi

14. Belarus 56p
best entry: Alyona Lanskaya
worst entry: Teo

15. Spain 56p
best entry: Lucia Perez
worst entry: Edurne, Barei

16. Russia 56p (9 entries)
best entry: Peter Nalitch & Friends
worst entry: Polina Gagarina

17. Cyrpus 53p (9 entries)
best entry: john Lilygreen & The Islanders
worst entry: Ivi Adamou

18. Hungary 53p (9 entries)
best entry: Joci Papai (2017 only)
worst entry: Boggie

19. United Kingdom 52p
best entry: Electro Velvet
worst entry: Josh Dubovie

20. Estonia 52p
best entry: Elina Nechayeva
worst entry: Ott Lepland

21. North Macedonia 52p
best entry: Kaliopi (both)
worst entry: Gjoko Taneski & Billy Zver & Pejcin

22. Albania 51p
best entry: Juliana Pasha
worst entry: Eneda Tarifa

23. Greece 50p
best entry: Maria Elena Kyriakou
worst entry: Giorgos Alkaios

24. Germany 49p
best entry: Ann Sophie
worst entry: Levina

25. France 48p
best entry: Alma
worst entry: Amir

26. Armenia 49p (9 entries)
best entry: Artsvik
worst entry: Sevak Khanagyan

27. Azerbaijan 47p
best entry: Aisel
worst entry: Ell & Nikki

28. Latvia 45p
best entry: Triana Park
worst entry: Aminata

29. Belgium 44p
best entry: Blanche
worst entry: Loic Nottet

30. Austria 43p (9 entries)
best entry: ZOË
worst entry: Nathan Trent

31. Georgia 42p
best entry: Eldrine
worst entry: Otto Nemsadze

32. Croatia 35p (8 entries)
best entry: Nina Kraljic
worst entry: Roko

33. Portugal 35p (8 entries)
best entry: Claudia Pascoal
worst entry: Homens Da Luta

34. Serbia 35p (9 entries)
best entry: Moje 3
worst entry: Željko Joksimović

35. Poland 34p (8 entries)
best entry: Donatan & Cleo
worst entry: Kasia Mos

36. Australia 31p (5 entries only)
best entry: Dami Im
worst entry: Guy Sebastian

37. Iceland 30p
best entry: Hatari
worst entry: Eythor Ingi

38. Lithuania 28p
best entry: Donny Montell
worst entry: InCulto

39. Bulgaria 26p (7 entries)
best entry: Poli Genova (2016 only)
worst entry: Equinox

40. San Marino 19p (9 entries)
best entry: Jessika & Jenifer Brening
worst entry: Velantina Monetta (2012), Serhat (both)

41. Ukraine 17p (8 entries)
best entry: ?
worst entry: Mika Newton, Melovin, O. Torvald

42. Slovakia 10p (3 entries only)
best entry: Kristina
worst entry: Max Jason Mai

43. Turkey 10p (3 entries only)
best entry: Can Bonomo
worst entry maNga

44. Czech Republic 9p (5 entries only)
best entry: ?
worst entry: Lake Malawi, Gabriela Gunčíková

45. Bosnia & Herzegovina 6p (4 entries only)
best entry: ?
worst entry: Dino Merlin

46. Montenegro 5p (8 entries)
best entry: ?
worst entry: Sergej Ćetković, Knez, Slavko Kalezić, Vanja Radovanović, D-Mol

So what's you favorite country in Eurovision this decade? No need to do this long process in order to find it!

 

[BorisBubbles]

It's not even close lol. Not a single bad entry in over a decade. It would have been close if hadn't sent a certain sexual predator to ESC, but oh well, Estonia is BESTonia 5ever and ever.

Meanwhile, in

:?

 

[Citelis]

Since you mentioned them my ranking for

1. Elina Nachayeva
2. Elina Born & Stig Rasta
3. Koit Toome & Laura
4. Getter Jaani
5. Birgit
6. Juri Pootsmann
7. Tanja
8. Malcolm Lincoln
9. Victor Crone
10. Ott Lepland

1. Molly Sterling
2. Sarah McTernal
3. Brendan Murray
4. Niamh Kavanagh
5. Ryan O'Shaughnessy
6. Ryan Dolan
7. Cann-Linn
8. Nicky Byrne
9. Jedward
10. Jedward

1. Anna Rossinelli
2. Sinplus
3. Zibbz
4. Luca Hanni
5. Rykka
6. Melanie Rene
7. Timebelle
8. Takasa
9. Sebalter
10. Michael von der Heide

Switzerland is just amazing!

 

[Ana Raquel]

ukraine
(best zlata worst o.torvald)

then serbia
(best bojana worst tijana)

then moldova
(best sunstroke project 1 worst anna)

then romania
(best living legend florin cezar ouatu worst the humans)

then norway i guess
(best margaret worst morland and debrah)


ireland the worst as usual oh

 

[Citelis]

1. Malmo 2013
2. Tel Aviv 2019
3. Kiev 2017
4. Lisbon 2018
5. Stockholm 2016
6. Dusseldorf 2011
7. Olso 2010
8. Copenhagen 2014
9. Baku 2012
10. Vienna 2015

 

[John1]

, without any doubts.

 

[Realest]

 

[Preuss]

Taking the whole decade into consideration then Sweden... if my favourite from melfest wins, which usually happens, they're usually in my overall top five of the year
If not then Australia - I was extremely sceptical of them joining the contest, but they've won over me

And yes this probably says something about my music taste and yes I like generic and mainstream songs...

edit: and azerbaijan

 

[Citelis]

There are many great music genres, styles, languages i like but usually nothing is as good as generic pop in english!

 

[midnightsun]

I was curious to find out which my favourite ESC country this decade was. So I took my time to rate every song of every country in the past ten years.

3 points = super good, I love the song | 1 point = it's okay. Nice but unexciting | 0 points = terrible.
I divided the points by the number of participations.

So the results were really surprising, at least what my favourite countries are. Didn't expect this.

country | average rating of the songs

TOP 10

1 Bulgaria 3,00
2 Australia 2,40
3 Czech Republic 2,40
4 Serbia 2,11
5 Norway 2,10
6 Sweden 1,90
7 Italy 1,89
8 Azerbaijan 1,80
9 Belgium 1,80
10 N. Macedonia 1,67


11 Montenegro 1,63
12 France 1,60
13 Moldova 1,60
14 Albania 1,50
15 Bosnia & Hrzgv 1,50
16 Georgia 1,50
17 Israel 1,50
18 Russia 1,50
19 United Kingdom 1,50
20 Hungary 1,44
21 Germany 1,40
22 Switzerland 1,40
23 Slovakia 1,33
24 Romania 1,30
25 Armenia 1,22
26 Belarus 1,20
27 Iceland 1,20
28 Malta 1,20
29 Croatia 1,13
30 Austria 1,00
31 Netherlands 1,00
32 Estonia 0,90
33 Lithuania 0,90

10 LEAST FAVOURITES I'm sorry

34 Cyprus 0,89
35 Finland 0,80
36 Greece 0,80
37 Ireland 0,70
38 Latvia 0,70
39 San Marino 0,67
40 Slovenia 0,60
41 Denmark 0,30
42 Portugal 0,30
43 Poland 0,25

/edit: I forgot some countries... will include them as soon as possible... seems I deleted them accidentally in my excel table when sorting...d'oh...

 

[EmmelieFan]

Probably Denmark actually. I loved 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018 and 2019. 2015-2017 are only average to good, but still not bad!

 

[hijirio]

In my perfect world Estonia would win twice in this decade. (2015-2018) They slayed so well.
Israel would be my second, followed by Ukraine and Russia

 

[Mainshow]

Actually, I thought that Azerbaijan will be my favourite country of this decade but after couting all rankings together + coming up with an average score, that's my full list:

#1 5.22
#2 5.40
#3 13.20
#4 14.63
#5 15.30
#6 16.43
#7 16.70
#8 16.78
#9 17.10
#10 17.60
#11 18.00
#12 18.10
#13 18.25
#14 18.25
#15 18.70
#16 19.10
#17 19.67
#18 19.75
#19 20.10
#20 20.20
#21 20.40
#22 20.70
#23 21.10
#24 21.89
#25 21.90
#26 22.11
#27 22.30
#28 22.40
#29 23.10
#30 23.11
#31 23.25
#32 23.67
#33 23.90
#34 24.00
#35 24.38
#36 24.89
#37 25.00
#38 25.20
#39 25.44
#40 25.50
#41 25.70
#42 25.70
#43 27.40
#44 28.20
#45 31.67
#46 34.56

Based on the Top 10 (Eurovison-Style) system, this would be my list:
Top 10 Points System
71 Azerbaijan
55 Italy
37 Germany
34 Albania
31 Slovenia
29 The Netherlands
28 Sweden
23 Belarus
23 Israel
19 Montenegro
18 Poland
17 Hungary
17 Ukraine
17 Ireland
16 Estonia
15 Armenia
14 Latvia
12 Croatia
12 Russia
11 Portugal
10 Iceland
10 Slovakia
9 Norway
9 United Kingdom
7 Bulgaria
7 France
5 Finland
5 Switzerland
4 Australia
4 Georgia
3 Serbia
3 Moldova
3 Lithuania
3 Czech Republic
2 Malta
2 Spain
2 Belgium
1 Denmark
1 Romania
1 Austria
0 Turkey
0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
0 Cyprus
0 San Marino
0 Greece

I have to say that it's really interesting to do it both ways to see how much influence different systems actually have.

These would be my Top 10s:

AVERAGE RANKS:
ESC-STYLE-PNTS:

 

[LastDreamer]

Each song got from 0 to 10 points.

Average :
1. San Marino - 5.33
2. Romania - 5.22
3. Slovenia - 5.20
4. Estonia - 4.90
5. Germany - 4.90
6. United Kingdom - 4.90
7. Poland - 4.88
8. Croatia - 4.63
9. Lithuania - 4.60
10. Macedonia - 4.60
11. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 4.50
12. Belarus - 4.40
13. Ireland - 4.40
14. Finland - 4.40
15. Belgium - 4.30
16. Netherlands - 4.30
17. Switzerland - 4.20
18. Serbia - 4.11
19. Moldova - 4.10
20. Latvia - 4.10
21. Denmark - 4.00
22. Czech Republic - 3.80
23. Greece - 3.70
24. Cyprus - 3.56
25. Slovakia - 3.50
26. Sweden - 3.40
27. Iceland - 3.40
28. Portugal - 3.25
29. Hungary - 3.22
30. Spain - 3.20
31. Russia - 3.10
32. Georgia - 3.00
33. Austria - 3.00
34. Malta - 2.90
35. Norway - 2.90
36. Montenegro - 2.88
37. Albania - 2.80
38. Italy - 2.78
39. Israel - 2.70
40. Bulgaria - 2.57
41. Australia - 2.40
42. Azerbaijan - 2.30
43. France - 2.10
44. Turkey - 2.00
45. Ukraine - 2.00
46. Armenia - 1.89

 

[tomos2019]

^ It's nice to see San Marino at the top, they do send good songs especially on odd-numbered years!

 

[LastDreamer]

^ It's nice to see San Marino at the top, they do send good songs especially on odd-numbered years!

1. San Marino

Average points : 5.33 / 10

9 : Valentina Monetta - The Social Network Song (2nd place in 2012)
: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (2nd place in 2014)
: Valentina Monetta - Crisalide (Vola) (6th place in 2013)
: Jessika and Jenifer Brening - Who We Are (6th place in 2018)
: Valentina Monetta and Jimmie Wilson - Spirit Of The Night (2017)
: Serhat - I Didn't Know (8th place in 2016)
: Serhat - Say Na Na Na (2019)
: Anita Simoncini and Michele Perniola - Chain Of Lights (2015)
: Senit - Stand By (2011)

 

[tomos2019]

The best result for on my ranking is surprisingly Spirit of the Night (5th place) for some reason!

 

[Mainshow]

I don't get San Marino at all, tbh. The best result for :sm on my ranking is "Crisalide" and "Maybe"; both ranked #26.
The country have been bottom 5 on my list in 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019.

 

[Citelis]

My favorite San Marino entry ever is still this. Reached top 10 in my 2018 personal ranking!